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The FDA greenlit 26 novel therapies in the first half of 2026, including four for cancer and six for orphan indications. Meanwhile, AstraZeneca and Johnson and Johnson took home a combined 11 of the agency’s 79 total approvals, including supplemental nods.
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Last month, the FDA launched TrialBlazer, intended to streamline the IND path and bring early clinical trials and medical innovation home to the U.S. It’s a start, but new agency leadership must see it through.
Significant leadership instability at the FDA—compounded by continued workforce attrition—led to a slight slowdown in overall regulatory productivity in the first half of this year, but the agency has been catching up of late.
Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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The latest approval for Calquence, a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, was granted under the FDA’s Real-Time Oncology Review and newly established Project Orbis programs.
The approval marks the first time a Korean company independently brought a drug from discovery to FDA approval.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ Givlaari (givosiran) for acute hepatic porphyria.
AbbVie’s blockbuster drug Humira just got another challenger to its share of the market in the United States when its patent expires in 2023.
“The approval of Adakveo marks a new era in the treatment of sickle cell disease, a genetic condition that places an extraordinary burden of unpredictable pain crises on patients and their families,” said Susanne Schaffert, president of Novartis Oncology.
It is the first BeiGene-discovered drug to be approved.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Shionogi’s Fetroja as a treatment for adult patients with complicated urinary tract infections caused by a number of Gram-negative microorganisms.
The approval marks the first approved treatment in the United States for this condition.
Ziextenzo (pegfilgrastim) is a long-acting version of filgrastim and is indicated to decrease the incidence of infection in cancer patients.
In clinical trials, Talicia demonstrated 90% efficacy in the eradication of H. pylori in studies and is the only rifabutin-based therapy on the market.